CLIVE GRIFFITHS admits he is tempted to stay on as RGC 1404 head coach at the end of the season.

Former Grand Slam winning coach Griffiths, who was defence guru under Mike Ruddock during the 2005 Six Nations clean sweep, was announced as chief of Gogledd Cymru– now named RCG 1404 – last month.

His contract is for an initial five months, which will take him up to the end of the current campaign at the end of April.

However, Griffiths admits he is enjoying being a part of the new look North Wales representative side, especially with the arrival of nine Canadian professionals, and could be persuaded to stay.

“Yeah, I would be tempted to stay on from what I’ve seen,” said Griffiths. “We are training full time which I really enjoy doing and that’s been part of my life for a long, long time.

“We’re trying to integrate the two groups with morning and evening sessions as Jason (Forster) and I did at Doncaster, with some success, and that’s working already.

“They (the players) understand that we need to have a full time training programme, but it’s nice to back in full time professional rugby, and challenging the

players and myself as well.”

Forster will aid Griffiths as a forwards coach of RCG 1404 for the season.

The former Wales international will split his time between helping Griffiths in North Wales and his job as part-time head coach of English National Three South side Henley Hawks.

Griffiths added: “Jason has been up a few times to help me along the way, like I said we worked together for a season at Doncaster and had some great success up there and just missed out on promotion, which frightened them to death nearly.

“At that particular time he gave me three roles, which was captain, player and coach, but at the moment he is giving me a leader of the forwards and a coach.

“He is an up and coming coach and will be very good coach in the years to come and we work well together.

“He’s looking forward to his new role and splitting time between here and Henley.”

And Griffiths also joked he had tried to bribe Forster into a playing role with RCG, adding: “I’ve tried, I’ve bribed him and even said I’d buy him a drink which is unusual. But he’s set his stall out and he wants to be a coach, good luck to him.”

John Tait, Rugby Canada’s assistant national team forwards coach, added: “These players are all part of the National Elite squad and train full-time and I’m over to help them bed in.